Anyone taken the new A+ hardware test???

[Daxxax]

I am set to take the Hardware side of the test this Thursday. I have the Myers A+ book and have been studying for about two months now, also been taking as much free test questions on-line that I can find. I was just wondering to those people who have taken the new test is there any questions that surprised you? Should I be concentrating on one perticular topic? Is there any helpful hints you could tell me? I feel pretty good about the material, I guess I'm just nervous abit. 130 dollars is alot to blow if I fail it. Thanks for any replies....

 

[Bellweather]

Being A+ certified is probably worth more than $130 dollars, even if it takes a couple tries to pass, I don't think it's a big deal. Not that I think you'll fail, a well informed anandtecher should do just fine.

 

[blakeatwork]

I felt the hardest part was all the printer stuff...but as long as you read up on it, you should do fine...

course being an Anand-whore helps....

 

[Daxxax]

Anyone else have any info for me???

 

[bonkers325]

<< Anyone else have any info for me??? >>



the software section is easy if u know windows

i must say the printers consist on at least 7+ questions

these 7 may be needed if u bomb out on others
but if u are good with others the printers dont mean much to u

all u need is a 65% to pass

 

[bonkers325]

obtw when i took it
the software section i still had 30mins to spare

but for teh hardware i only had 30 secs to spare

 

[dawks]

damn bonkers, we were only given 30 minutes total.. Took me about 8-9 minutes per test.

 

[wiredspider]

Is there a new test? I think they recently changed it, guess it's to keep little dumb kids like me from passing it. A+ when I took it must have really been a joke. I passed both my test in about 30 minutes I guess. One of the test I was just waiting for someone else to finish first, then I got sick of waiting and click grade now(I passed !). One of my test I had to take all by myself . I used Exam Essentials for the Software part of my test, was really really helpful. Good Luck!

 

[dawks]

Yes, the test is new.. changed in July or something.. 20 multiple choice minimum, 30 max.

30 minutes max.

dos questions gone. replaced with Windows 2000.

 

[new99]

eww.. windows 2000 =/

 

[dbcrossfire]

the printer junk was the hardest, everything else was cake.

if you don't like win2k, install it on your pc and screw around with it for a while... thats what I did.